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Media Matters: The "Sting" That Wasn't: Right-wing Media Hype Bogus Version Of Planned Parenthood Video Story

By FZ - Posted on 06 February 2011

February 4, 2011- Following right-wing group Live Action's first release of a video allegedly "exposing" Planned Parenthood's "cover-up of child sex trafficking," conservative media have rushed to accuse Planned Parenthood of engaging in criminal activity. In fact, at least two weeks before the video of the sting operation in a New Jersey Planned Parenthood was released, Planned Parenthood reported to the FBI a "potential multistate sex trafficking ring" and later fired the employee behaving improperly in the video.